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Honestly love how consistent Rome’s horniness levels are. Raffy goes stern boss for less than ten seconds, and Rome immediately needs to fuck him in their office bathroom about this.

I would say it’s absurd that that’s the man Rome, the singular most fuckable person in that university, wanted so badly he kept abandoning his dignity and spine over him, but clearly Raffy is not only exactly Rome’s type, he also matches Rome’s horny energy every time, and he’s the number one supporter of Rome’s career now that they’re dating, so honestly? Seems like abandoning his spine a couple times was worth it. He actually managed to have a successful I could fix him-run with Raffy. (Well, Raffy’s still an occasional bitch and I’d put money on scheming always being on the table, but clearly Rome is into it, as long as nobody suffers unduly because of it, so.) Good for Rome. I think their future looks bright. (That of everyone around them, whenever they have to contend with RomeRaffy just Existing in public, however? Much less so. Considering the fact those two seem able to make absolutely anything work as foreplay).

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Having Thoughts about how Krit uses Singto to get closer to Wayu every time he doesn’t know how to bridge a gap. He wanted Wayu to be his informant (so he could get closer to him) but Wayu wouldn’t agree for himself? He used getting Singto a good daycare to make Wayu agree.

He pushed Wayu away/didn’t want to tell him about the Ex Situation, and Wayu reacted accordingly? Krit came along to the daycare & child psychologist appointment and simply inserted himself as the second father figure, even though Wayu was visibly annoyed.

Wayu drew back because Krit told him he couldn’t go public, but didn’t tell him why (and Wayu likely assumed it was because of Krit being ashamed of Wayu’s job)? Krit got Singto to convince Wayu to come camping with him, and only after some Quality Family Time did he actually open up to Wayu.

Every time there’s a gap between them, Krit uses Singto to bridge it, which is both the best thing he could do (Singto is the most important thing to Wayu, and Wayu clearly visibly craves having a family, and Krit is clearly and visibly already so all in), and the absolute worst (because while Krit is trying, he still hasn’t learned how to bridge these gaps without involving Wayu’s child, which can’t be good for the relationship foundation & communication (honestly, he’s lucky Wayu is such a direct and earnest communicator) and because if/when this situation implodes, it’s going to be so much worse, because Singto is going to get hurt in the crossfire, which he does not deserve, and Krit and Wayu are both going to feel that, severely).

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Chat is truly The character of all time. Comes from nobility. Extremely prejudiced and an asshole about it. Supremely stupid and extremely susceptible to being scammed. Loves his family and tries to help it, but only makes things worse. Always SO close to understanding something, but falls just shy every time. Lost Eldest Son privileges through the force of being Supremely Stupid. Does not get equally loved back by his family. Has an extremely complicated relationship with his father. Just wants to do something right for once. Has a gambling problem and invested in a scammy mine to get out of the issues that his gambling caused. Pulls the silliest faces when he thinks he finally Got something (he never actually gets anything). Genuinely wants to protect his little brother. Accidentally shot said brother in the arm.

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"You're the only one who sees my worth." Dean, I’m gonna hold your hand when I tell you this, but Jack is the LAST person actually who sees your worth. He loves you, sure, but he’s never once seen every part of you as worthy and respected you as a full person – or your choices, for that matter. He behaved like an asshole about a moment in which you were severely intoxicated that you snapped yourself out of before anything really happened, and during which you also weren’t even back together yet, mistrusted and accused you at every turn after, and then after seeing you break down said he forgave you, when honestly he should’ve been the one grovelling.

Anyway, I’m begging you to really just let each other go. I’m not sure there’s anyone out there Jack is good for, but he can eat dirt for all I care. Dean my beloved however, please get yourself a better man. (Gameplay was right there.)

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I will say, if Edge of Horizon gives me a thai-bl-style extremely half-assed forgiveness of shitty parents for no good reason towards the end, I will be supremely annoyed. Either give me a break with the parental figures or deserved forgiveness by way of actual parental redemption. Or, even better, give me a forever-complex family relationship where nothing is okay and well but a complete break is impossible because those are still their parents, so everyone lingers on an edge of trying to ignore the elephant in the room and being uncomfortable and not trusting each other but also incapable of putting an end to the connection entirely. I know I won't get that last one because that requires a certain complexity and discomfort and open-endedness that Thai BL does not typically like to provide, but I can always hope. Give me complicated uncomfortable family relationships that aren't completely broken but also aren't fine in any sense of the word, come on!

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Oh Rome, with Raffy around you will NEVER be free from the curse of the annoying little beast of a man you wanted turning off your music when you’re just trying to DJ a set. Goddamn. At least Raffy is consistent (&Rome is into him even when he’s being an annoying little beast), but also, truly the worst trait a boyfriend can have when you’re trying to make it as a DJ. Rome is gonna spend the rest of his career having to do damage control when his boyfriend interrupts his sets, huh.

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Honestly say what you want about OFDO (I certainly have & will continue to say some not-so-friendly things), but like. Yeah these people are in fact behaving like idiots in their early twenties. Blowing almost-nothing up into a huge drama? Your two friends who’ve been in a low-key unhealthy relationship for three years now being exes in a sort of on/off situation where they’re too in love to let go but don’t trust each other & are seriously bad for each other & honestly one of them deserves so much better than his shitty sort-of-ex he keeps begging to take him back, and you desperately want to see them either fix this or finally fucking break up for good because holy hell, but also you wish they’d stop dragging YOU into it? The coolest guy you know getting so unreasonably horny over some tall pretty bitchy rich loser he’s ALSO definitely too good for that he's decided spines are for other people, he’s 21 and horny so he really doesn’t need his right now, and also he’s discovering more and more kinks the longer he’s into pretty bitch loser? People not focusing on the important things like uni or projects because they’re too busy with their relationship drama, causing countless headaches to the people on the projects with them? Yeah. The most unrealistic thing is the distinct lack of cross-ship hooking up, because oh boy friend groups, esp queer friend groups, at that age are messy, but other than that? Behaviour-wise? Those are some uni students in their early twenties alright. I had friends like that at that age. They drove me up the bend. Honestly, my baby brother was way worse than that at 21, actually. Sometimes he'd call me and start a phone conversation with a sentence on a random Tuesday at 5pm that made me want to walk into the nearest lake.

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Well, I have many thoughts about the OFDO finale, and a lot of them are annoyance at how much the writers stopped caring about the characterisation they set up in the beginning of the series.

I don’t mind the mess, the irrational behaviour, the making a mountain out of a molehill, because all of that tracks with uni students in their early twenties, and I don’t mind the conflict reasons being benign, because you can tell good stories even with a benign conflict, I don’t even mind that they didn’t follow through on any cross-ship action, since I knew that was going to be the case, but what I do mind is that they seemingly forgot most things they set up in episodes one to four, or didn’t bother to set up other conflicts properly at all, which made the pay-off honestly feel inconsequential. Dean went from having one of his conflicts being a lack of money, and being slut-shamed for working a host job in the past, and his disagreements with Jack (& subsequent lies so he could jeep working) around that directly leading to their past first break-up, to saying in the finale how good they used to have it, because they didn’t have to worry about work or money in the past?

The entire Pete thing was set up so late and so minimally that while I wanted to be invested and feel emotionally satisfied when he was confronted about it in ep11, I mostly just didn’t care?

Tua and Dean’s huge falling out that resulted in Dean being kicked out of the house got resolved with one (1) forced conversation?

And we got a one year time-skip and suddenly Jack says he’s changed and he wants Dean back? Which both makes sense – it’s obvious they both don’t know how to move on – and doesn’t, because up until this point Jack has given no indication that he’d be willing to actively be the one pursuing a getting-back-together, and since we saw nothing of what happened in the time-skip and only got the vague information that he dated a doctor which didn’t work out, there is no real explanation as to why Jack would suddenly be the one to want to give it another try.

There are so many things the show set up and could have done properly, and it’s kind of sad how flat it ended up falling in pushing through with any of its own storytelling beats. I still largely enjoyed myself, to no small part because the actors did a great job and the chemistry was stellar, and boy did AouBoom deliver on Rome and Raffy, but it’s telling how little I cared about the semblance of plot by the end, and how even ArnoldTua honestly fell flat to me after episode 10. Which is absurd, because friends to lovers is pretty much an automatic buy in for me. Everything about them sounds like it was made in a lab for me. But by the time episode 11 rolled around I’d genuinely stopped caring about them, even though by rights I should have been so invested in seeing them properly date again and on cloud nine with established relationship scenes.

If nothing else, though, I appreciate Rome and Raffy’s dedication to only ever having sex in places that are at minimum semi-public.